One is the senior benefits office in Cuyahoga County and one is a legal aid line that handles guarantor cases, and you should call the second one first, because you may have a claim against the bank that nobody has looked at.

“I’ll email them both to you within the hour.

“I’m not going to send you money.

Not this month and not next year.

And I want to tell you why, plainly, once, and then I’m not going to discuss it again.

“It isn’t because of what your son did.

You didn’t do that and I’ve never thought you did.

“It’s because for fourteen years you sat in my house and told me that a woman who protects her own things is a bad wife.